Wednesday, May 26, 2010

For Niagara Falls and the Niagara River Greenway region to rise, the following must be implemented as a mission statement by our local politicians:

Building Principles on Core Values
The Code, created and maintained by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS), sets out principles and guidelines built on core values. Fundamental values like advocacy, honesty, loyalty, professional development and objectivity structure ethical practice and interaction with clients and the public.

I'd like to see Croisdale walk west on a DeVeaux street, come to the parkway, climb over a fence, run across the parkway...then go back & do it again on the next street, and the next, and the next...I'd like to see Croisdale, his fingers hooked in the chain link fence, peering into the State Park's Maintenance garage area on the gorge rim...I'd like to see him staring at the "princess" on the "other side of the border" when he recognizes her for the gaudy whore that she is...I'd like to see him sitting on Tesla's lap for a photo op...etc. I'd like to see his name on the Niagara Heritage Partnership petition for gorge parkway removal...then I'd know Niagara was rising... --Bob Baxter, Niagara Heritage Partnership

Saturday, May 15, 2010

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. They are much like eagles...They don't flock, you find them one at a time." -Mac Anderson

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

18 Mile Creek (north of the Burt Dam), Olcott, New YorkThis is a darn interesting picture and story even if you aren't into fishing, But please show it to anyone you know that likes to fish.FYI: This sturgeon is still alive, just worn out from the fight. As the sports fishermen they are, they turned him loose after the photo.

This Sturgeon was caught on the 18 Mile Creek (north of the Burt Dam), Olcott, New York two weeks ago.
It weighed out at over 1,000 lbs and measured out at 11'1".It was 56" around the girth and took over 6 and a half hours, and 4 dozen beers, for the 4 guys taking turns at the reeling it in.

Any Sturgeon OVER about five feet has to be released unharmed and cannot be removed from the water.They are brood / breeding stock and probably older than most of us.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.

Highlights of reports received April 29 through May 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WARBLERS, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and WILLET.

Spring migration is approaching full speed and covering the entire region. At least 22 warblers species were reported this week. A few of the favored locations include Tifft Nature Preserve, Times Beach and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, Amherst State Park, Goat Island in Niagara Falls and Point Gratiot and Saint Columbans in Chautauqua County. Also, backyards and night skies.

Warbler highlights included a reported WORM-EATING WARBLER April 30 and May 1 on Plaza Drive near Cayuga Drive in the Town of Niagara. At Forest Lawn, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on the ridge May 1 and GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER east of the lake on the 5th. Other warblers - BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and HOODED WARBLER, with more still to come or be reported.

May 1, almost two weeks early, a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Johnson Creek Road and Somerset-Hartland Townline, with GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. May 2, on the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario, 4 WILLETS, a shorebird known for it's brief stopovers, at Harborview Road, west of Port Colborne.

Also May 2, 11 BLACK TERNS at one of their few or only breeding sites in the region - Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge.

Other reports - a calling NOR. SAW-WHET OWL in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale, and a RED-HEADED WDPKR. in a yard on Deer Trail Road in Cheektowaga.

Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 13. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Baxter, a Niagara County Community College Professor Emeritus of English, has been a fellow of a New York State Creative Public Service Award for Fiction and a recipient of a Just Buffalo Award for Fiction.Previous publications include Looking for Niagara (Slipstream Press); chapbooks: A Good War And Other Poems; Hunger; and What I Want. Additional work has appeared in New Madrid, Stone Canoe, and in Underbeat Journal #2. A novel, Captain Hooter at Niagara, awaits publication by Michigan State University Press.

Mark Lloyd recently published a chapbook: Warm Blooded Mornings, which will be available for purchase at Talking Leaves. Several of Lloyd’s poems have appeared in Artvoice.

Born in Lockport, NY, Mark began his love of writing for theatre by listening to old time radio dramas and comedies. In May of 2006 he won a Writing Award from the Theatre Association of New York State for his work "Hollywood Dreams—A Monologue," produced by The Amherst Players, and in 2009 won an award for Directing Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn, produced by the Towne Players.July 2010. He is the Events Coordinator for an Art Festival at the Historic Tonawanda Castle where he will direct his one act play “Asleep In the Snowy Forest.” August 2010 he will direct and write his first dinner theater production: Dating Is a Drag at the same location.

Niagara Falls, Canada: The new high-rises will cast shadows on parts of Queen Victoria Park and Goat Island and will interfere with Niagara's trademark rainbow and the spectacle of the setting sun’s light on the Horseshoe Falls. More information and an online petition can be found HERE.

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People will only conserve what they love, they will only love what they understand, they will understand only what they are taught.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. They are much like eagles...They don't flock, you find them one at a time. --Mac Anderson

A growth stragegy is the best path toward continual innovation. --Noel Tichy (Leadership Tip of the Day)

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions--not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes. --Rollo May

All leaders should be accountable for diversity. - Roxanne Spillet Leader to Leader Institute

Don't tell me where your priorities are. show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are. - James W. Frick

"A compromise can posses integrity provided that it meets a fairly simple test: it must move you toward your goal rather than away from it."

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. --Thomas Jefferson

Let us not be content to wait and see what happens, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. --Peter Marshall

The power of one man or one woman doing the right things for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society. -Jack Kemp

Values are critical guides for making decisions. When in doubt, they cut through the fog like a beacon. Mac Anderson

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help."

--David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn

Place is often something you don't see because you're so familiar with it that you devalue it or dismiss it or ignore it. But in fact it is the information your reader most wants to know. --Dorothy Allison, "Place" (p 7) The Writer's Notebook

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.- Confucius

...actually living the 'do right rule' is tough because t requires discipline, commitment and courage. - David Cottrell, (p49) Monday Morning Leadership